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Time September 4th Thursday |
Activity |
Description |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
Informal discussions and networking |
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9:00 am |
Welcome Remarks |
PI Meng |
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9.10am |
Introduction |
Ceramics program director Dr. Madsen |
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9.30am |
NSF Sustainability Overview |
Dr.Gregory Rorrer |
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10:00 am |
Morning break |
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10:15 am |
Session 1 |
Dr. Dillon: Individual heterojunction nanowires and their performance as photocatalysts |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
On site lunch for discussions and networking |
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1:30 pm |
ENG IIP |
Dr. Shashank Division of Industrial Innovation & Partnerships |
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2:00 pm |
Session II Panel II |
Xueyan Song: Engineering the energy interconversion properties of oxide thermoelectric materials |
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4:00 pm |
Afternoon Break |
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4:15 pm |
Other Faculty |
Discussion on the future direction of ceramics research |
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6:15 pm |
End of formal sessions |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner |
Onsite dinner for informal discussions and networking |
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Time September 5th Friday |
Activity |
Description |
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8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
Informal discussions and networking |
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9:00 am |
DMR Overview |
Dr. Mary E Galvin-Donoghue |
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10:00 am |
Session III Panel III |
Liping Huang: Examining the role of elasticity in strengthening glasses by in situ light scattering |
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12.00pm |
Lunch |
On site lunch for discussions and networking |
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1:30 pm |
Session IV |
Materials Genome Initiative |
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2:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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Three NSF CAREER awardees in Ceramics Program: |
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Dr. Shen Dillon is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Shen received his Bachelor’s degree and Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in 2002 and 2007. Following his graduation in 2007, Dr. Dillon went to work as a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University and Visiting Professor at Lehigh University. At Carnegie Mellon, the focus of his work was three-dimensional characterization of microstructures in order to obtain data critical to understanding microstructural evolution. Shen spent the 2008 academic year as a Visiting Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on materials for energy storage, before joining UIUC as a faculty member. As part of his CAREER program, Shen will quantitatively establish relationships between properties of individual heterojunction nanowires and their performance as photocatalysts. His approach includes in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to quantify the rate of photocatalytic gas evolution at individual nanostructures, ex-situ characterization to extend the structural and chemical information, and electrical measurements to obtain photoconductivity and relaxation data. This work will help to optimize high-efficiency, low-cost heterojunction photocatalysts that might lead toward new approaches to enhancing photocatalytic efficiency and new experimental methods for studying photochemistry at the nanometer scale. |
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Dr. Xueyan Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of West Virginia University, Morgantown. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. from Zhejiang University China. She did her postdoctoral research in Departemento de Engenharia de Materiais, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal and became a research associate in University of Wisconsin Madison in 2003. Xueyan’s CAREER project aims to optimize, through nanoscale engineering approaches, the energy interconversion properties of the p-type oxide thermoelectric materials. Her approach includes doping of the lattice to enhance the electrical transport properties as well as the simultaneous insertion of nanoscale-sized inclusions to reduce the thermal conductivity. This research ultimately will serve to improve thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery. |
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Dr. Liping Huang is an assistant professor in the Department Materials Science and Engineering in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Huang received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2004, did her postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University before joining the faculty at RPI in 2008. She won the Norbert J. Kreidl Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a student by the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society, in 2003. Dr. Huang has published many articles and given numerous lectures at conferences and symposia. Dr. Huang’s CAREER program has proposed new concepts that use a combination of experimental and computational approaches to examine the role of elasticity in strengthening glasses. Ultimately her work may prove useful in the design of tailored glasses, and benefits may derive from her development of a structural probe for understanding materials under extreme conditions. |
Lab visit hosted by Ryo for students from Tachikawa high school in Tokyo
